Tilen Vendramin

Right Back - ND Gorica
23 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Tilen Vendramin

3 Edition

The ND Gorica Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

NK Zavrc come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and ND Gorica did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Cosmin Burca due for a ND Gorica medical

Everything agreed with Pandurii, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at ND Gorica

Jan Đapo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

ND Gorica cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nura Salisu

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Tilen Vendramin gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Appearance number 100 for Miha Žejen

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Squad

Jakob Novak has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. ND Gorica know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Squad

7 new faces, and ND Gorica are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The ND Gorica Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tim Matavž signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tim Matavž commits to ND Gorica for another 2 years.

Player ratings

Nura Salisu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Andrija Drljo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ND Gorica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Tilen Vendramin falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Transfer targets

NK Maribor tell ND Gorica: Čedomir Bumbić is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Taj Rožič Šuligoj attracts admirers

The name of Taj Rožič Šuligoj has come up in conversations ND Gorica were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market

Still no ink between ND Gorica and Tim Matavž

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at ND Gorica, another week without a signature from Tim Matavž.

Market

Nobody at ND Gorica has picked up the phone to Filip Pobi

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Transfer targets

ND Gorica ask about Nik Belovič

A loan enquiry to NK Maribor: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief